jaws of death en · NOUN
Meanings
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(figuratively, plural, plural-only, poetic, qualifier:cliche) A very narrowly avoided fatal or near-fatal situation.
"And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him."
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Relateds
gates of death · gates of Hell
Translations (3)
cmn 虎口 (A narrowly avoided fatal situation) · ko 사지 (A narrowly avoided fatal situation) · mi waha o te parata (A narrowly avoided fatal situation)